The purpose of the Yemen Health Delegate is to support the achievement of humanitarian objectives through coordinating the design and implementation of the NorCross Primary health care and community outreach project in line with technical standards and best practices and any other health related issues.

Strategic Responsibilities:

• Ensure that Norwegian Red Cross supported projects in primary health care and community outreach is designed and implemented in line with established technical standards of both organizations and project management methodologies.
• Support Yemen Red Crescent Health department in developing thematic frameworks and relevant technical standards and support the operationalization of those standards.
• Contributes proactively with other technical personnel to the Norwegian Red Cross global efforts to establish and operationalized technical standards in relevant areas.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Conducts technical assessments and scoping missions as requested and contributes technically to project development.
• Carries out regular field monitoring, provides recommendations and assistance on project improvements and follows up on their implementation in line with established project agreements and project plans.
• Organizes technical mid-term reviews upon request and contributes to terms of reference and inception reports to final evaluations.
• Oversees data collection and provides support to tertiary and yearly country reports.
• Liaises with the Yemen Red Crescent technical and project teams to ensure relevance of technical assistance provided.
• Provides trainings and coaches Host National Society health staff on the operationalization of established technical standards and when challenges arise during the implementation, herein

- Develop the capacity of the Host National Society primary health care services and ensure abidance by NorCross standards and WHO best practices.

- Develop the capacity of the Host National Society in community outreach and ensure relevant reference to NorCross developed standards and methodologies.

- Develop the capacity of the Host National Society in health program management including assessment of needs, planning, implementation, reporting, preparation of contextualized Information, Education and Communication materials, among others

• Provides surge support to other countries and regions, as relevant and upon the request of the Regional Office.
• Help colleagues to understand and make use of available technical tools and methodologies.
• Promotes harmonization across regions and countries by monitoring use of common standards and tools.

Collaboration:

• Works closely with the relevant thematic Coordinator / Advisor at the Regional Office (RO) NorCross and other technically competent colleagues in the same discipline in other countries and regions.
• Support collaboration with other Red Cross movement technical personnel to enhance overall humanitarian impact in the country.
• Collaborates with other technical advisors in the region as relevant.

Mission specific responsibilities:

The Yemen Health Delegate will support the RC movement coordination and cooperation around health aspects and will provide the necessary technical support for YRCS to implement project related activities, as well support to move as possible from projects to programs in coordination with NorCross country programme manager.

Education:

• Higher University Degree in relevant technical discipline.

Skills and knowledge:

• In-depth understanding of relevant technical standards and the operationalization of those standards in humanitarian projects.
• Proven experience from project management, including needs assessments project design, MEAL planning and reporting.
• Knowledge about building technical capacities of partner organizations.
• English language work proficiency is required; Arabic language is an asset.
• Advanced understanding of the use of innovative tools and approaches in relevant technical discipline, is an asset

Personal qualifications:

• Ability to take initiative and accept responsibility
• Ability to work towards achieving objectives and results.
• Ability to cooperate and share competency
• Ability to develop others
• Collaborates well with others and supports others in the pursuit of team goals.
• Creates a stable and re-assuring work atmosphere and is firm and reliable

Reporting to:

Country Programme Manager, Yemen

Position is based in:

Sana'a Yemen

Contract:

12 months

Why should you apply?

Meaningful: You`ll be a part of the world's largest humanitarian organization, reaching the most vulnerable people in their local community.

Impact: You will help National Societies in the region to become strong, self-sustained and accountable humanitarian actors.

Career: You will be connected to an international organization with staff based all over the world

A great place to work: You will work in a multicultural environment with hard-working, dedicated and fun colleagues with a strong culture of collaboration, continual improvement, and celebration of wins.

Norwegian Red Cross strive to build a working culture based on respect, honesty and generosity. We follow the seven fundamental principles: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary service, Unity and Universality.